Practice briefs are a 10-15 page brief that provides recommendations for practices based on personal experience and research that support boys and men of color.
Practice Brief No. 1, Seven Justice-Oriented Principles for Men of Color Working with Boys of Color
Author: Michael V. Singh, Ph.D.
In recent years, educational stakeholders have sought to address the hardships experienced by boys of color by recruiting and retaining more men of color into the field of education. While men of color educators offer an array of benefits to students, there are also compelling critiques of the rationale undergirding the “positive male role model” approach. These critiques assert that popular notions of role modeling advance individualist, deficit-based, and patriarchal imaginations of educational success. This practice brief aims to support men of color educators by mapping out seven justice-oriented principles to help educators avoid confining notions of role modeling that threaten to co-opt their work with young people.
